The fierce battle at the Cloudfield Domain Node had already lasted two hours.
Throughout that time, reinforcements from the terrifying Dark Tide had surged in from every direction.
The joint battle group, which had already advanced near the node, had suffered continual casualties.
But having held on until now, everyone knew victory was not far away.
During this time, a new kind of Evil Spirit spawned by the Dark Tide had given Ye Xing, the battle commander, an endless headache.
This Evil Spirit looked like a huge ball of flesh with two legs. Its head was broad, its eyes sunk deep into its thick, tumorous body, with an enormous, eerily glowing eye growing there. Sharp fangs filled its gaping mouth, which emitted green mist and dripped viscous saliva that instantly corroded the ground into scorched black patches. Its lower limbs were thick and deformed, and it had no hands. Two small fleshy tumors rested on its back, covered in speckles of mold and rotten flesh and giving off a suffocating stench. As it moved, those two small tumors continually released green mist.
It was practically a walking source of infection.
Through analysis, the players at the front had already posted information about this new Evil Spirit in the small regional chat channel.
[Dark Tide Plague Ball] Hunting level: 12 Target introduction: A Dark Tide Evil, a low-tier plague unit capable of releasing plague mist over an area. Targets exposed to the mist take increased damage from Dark Tide corrosion, accompanied by negative conditions such as dizziness and nausea. (Specific effects depend on the exposed individual's physical constitution. The stronger the constitution, the less infection damage they take. Sufficient physical strength grants immunity to infection.)
The plague balls formed by the Dark Tide were practically tank killers.
The damage